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Hillary Clinton’s last trip to the Hill?

“I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven’t done it for 20 years,” she told New York Times columnist Gail Collins last month. “I would like to see whether I can get untired.”

Rarely has a public official left office with the popularity and opportunities that embrace Clinton. Four years ago, the world was sure her moment had come and gone, stolen by a movement no one could have foreseen.

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But today, the majority of Americans are rooting for her to run for president again, according to the Washington Post/ABC poll. Public Policy Polling reported that if the Iowa caucuses were held today Clinton would win 58 percent of the vote, followed by Biden with an anemic 17 percent. In Florida, she’d do even better against others in a primary, and go on to trounce favorite Republican sons Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Even the snarling Donald Trump has called her a “great lady.”

And Clinton has finally tackled the huge debt from the 2008 campaign hanging over her head. In a Federal Election Commission report filed on Tuesday, the Clinton campaign showed it had retired a $25 million debt, and has a surplus.

It’s a remarkable turnaround for Clinton, who before she became secretary of state, was considered one of the most controversial and craven politicians of her generation.

As first lady, she was reviled for being too ambitious, too cold, too loyal to her philandering husband, too involved in policy. When she took on the New York Senate campaign in 2000, she was criticized for riding her husband’s coattails. As a presidential candidate, she was assailed for running an outdated, imperial, insular campaign. In April of 2008, her approval ratings sunk to 44 percent.

But in the past four years, she has risen above the fray and been viewed as a grown-up and a leader amid the chaos surrounding an inexperienced president. Foreign service officers praise her for reaching out and expanding her inner circle. And she is highly regarded around the world.

“We are proud of you,” McCain said on Wednesday — before he called her answers on Benghazi “unsatisfactory.” “All over the world you are viewed with admiration and respect.”

“She’s really outdone herself,” Jarding said. “There were high expectations and a lot doubters and she made the transition almost seamlessly. Our standing around the world was at an all-time low, and it’s greatly improved — and she gets much of the credit for that.”

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) noted at the hearing: “I have seen you work yourself to exhaustion … And the country is grateful.”

Indeed, today her favorable ratings are higher than the man who defeated her for president. But in one of life’s unpredictable ironies, she clearly is not ready to seize her moment.

She returned to work on Jan. 7 after being out for a month because of the flu and a bad fall that caused a concussion and a blood clot in her head. She has appeared exhausted, and as the nation’s chief diplomat, traveling 1 million miles since her appointment.